Justice
In my home office
No one uses too much creamer
But I always have to be the one to make the coffee
In my home office
I pull a tarot card to kick off the morning
It was this or finally start that yoga or meditation thing
It’s a major arcana, from my Goddess deck, and it is me, well, my name
The origins of my name, Gwenhwyfar, which means, wait for it
White ghost, white enchantress, white fay
And really, I am psyched about that because
How did the ancients know so much about me?
The card has a woman, a Queen, Gwenhwyfar holding a sword
And a man, with a crown, kneeling – and it says that
It is time for a major and necessary change in life – that it is
Big stuff but I have confidence to do it –
I secretly and not so secretly wonder what it might feel like
To have confidence in anything
In my home office I say I am going to start
Doing the things, finally I am going to take this
Motivation and well, find it and then run with it, and then
Make something of myself out of it all
I woke up at 3am last night, bam, wide awake
Once again thinking of things of old, now gone, things of sentimental value
That I personally tossed into the trash because I felt
It was time to move on, make room for the new, open up space
My magic is rusty, my grief is rude
And this aimless ambition is irksome
After so long, when I thought by now I would be some kind of
Divine Feminine Powerhouse
Calmly walking through the world with my smashing hammer and my
Judgment sword,
A free woman in a better world
Justice, my only job.
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Jenny Justice, Poet. Sociologist. Teacher. Mother. Woman. Author of Love in the Time of Climate Change and Reveal. You can read more of her poetry at Justice Poetic. Sign up for her newsletter here. Follow her on jennyjusticepoet.com.
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